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W E ’ R E T H E R E W H E N YO U C A N ’ T B E

TUESDAY

NOVEMBER 29, 2016

B AY L O R L A R I AT. C O M

NoZe Bros Strike
Banner pokes
fun at Baylor
leadership
KALYN STORY

Liesje Powers | Photo Editor

Staff Writer
Monday morning, a banner hung
above Waco Hall calling out former
head football coach Art Briles and
the current Board of Regents for their
handling of sexual assault cases at
Baylor.
“Bro. Martin LuthNoZe has made
an appearance. Go to Waco Hall to
find the NoZe 9.5 Theses,” the NoZe
Brothers posted on their Facebook
page Monday morning.
When read vertically, the poster
spelled “Briles Knew.”
With points like, “Look the other
way when crossing a road, not when
running a university,” “Everyone
wearing black doesn’t change that
Briles knew,” and “Secrets are meant
to be kept unless you’re the board of
regents,” make it clear that the authors
are unhappy with not only how the
university handled sexual assaults but
how the students are responding to
Briles’ firing.
The poster also made a joke
referencing former President and
Chancellor Ken Starr: “Knock knock!
Who’s there? Ken. Ken who? Ken you
find me a new job?”
The banner was removed shortly
after it was posted.
“While we believe ongoing
conversations
about
Baylor’s
response to sexual violence are
vital to the university’s progress.
This unauthorized banner was
inappropriate, and it was immediately
removed
from
the
building,”

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FINDING HOPE Baylor community members gather Monday
night in Elliston Chapel to pray for Franklin, Tenn., senior Chase
Cantrell who is in critical care following an epileptic seizure.

Community prays
for student after
hospitalization
BAILEY BRAMMER
Staff Writer

A prayer vigil for Franklin,
Tenn., senior Chase Cantrell
was held Monday evening
in Elliston Chapel. Cantrell,
who has epilepsy, is in critical
care at the University of
Mississippi Medical Center in
Jackson, Miss., after having a
seizure early Friday morning
and going without oxygen for
several minutes.
The vigil was originally
proposed by Katy senior
Hayley Lang and Palestine
junior Caleb Abernathy, and
university chaplain Dr. Burt
Burleson helped organize the
event.
“I wanted to organize
the vigil because I felt it
would be a positive use of
my time instead of sitting
and being heartbroken about
the situation,” Lang said. “I

knew that his family was very
religious and wanted to do
something to help support and
lift them up during this time.”
The
gathering
was
broadcast live on Facebook so
Cantrell’s family and friends
could take part in the vigil as
well.
“Baylor is always trying to
be faithful to our mission to
do all that we do in a caring
environment,”
Burleson
said. “In these situations, we
communicate and facilitate
communication
between
members of the Baylor
community and the family
of the student in crisis. We
offer support through various
services on campus. We walk
alongside those whose lives
are being impacted, and we
find ways of helping all to lean
into the reality of our faith.”

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Seniors reflect on their last run of the Baylor Line
TALIYAH CLARK
Reporter
Baylor seniors got their chance to run “that
good ol’ Baylor Line” for the final time Saturday
morning before the Bears’ game against Kansas
State.
Many seniors said they were reflective and
nostalgic while waiting to run the Line for the
last time and saw it as an experience they will
never forget.
“It meant a lot to me because I got to see

everyone in the stands, and I got to look around
and take it all in for the last time,” Arlington
senior Lila Schaffer said. “I got a little bit tearyeyed because it was the last game at home that I
will ever get to experience as a student.”
Mesquite senior Victoria Ette echoed similar
sentiments.
“The first feeling that comes to mind is
bittersweet. It was almost kind of not real in the
moment,” Ette said. “It’s the final big student
experience that I will have, and it made me
realize how quickly four years has passed by
and that graduation is near.”

This year’s seniors were a special group
because they were the last line to run in Floyd
Casey Sadium. Rock Rapids, Iowa, senior Luke
De Jong spoke about the differences in running
in Floyd Casey compared to running in McLane
Stadium.
“It was kind of underwhelming in that I
didn’t have the same fears as I did in Floyd
Casey of being trampled or run over,” De Jong
said. “There is a clearer path for us to run in
McLane. It was pretty nostalgic, though. My
friends and I took a photo doing the same pose
we did in a picture we took as freshmen, and

it was great to compare the two photos to see
how much we had grown and changed over the
years.”
The Baylor Line holds a special place in
many of the seniors’ hearts and shows what it
means to be a Baylor Bear.
“To me, the Baylor Line represents the
best of our community,” McKinney senior Isis
Lewis said. “No matter where you come from
or what you are involved in, the Line showcases
how diverse and special we all are.”

Holiday spirit arrives in downtown Waco
MEGAN RULE
Staff Writer

Lariat File Photo

WINTERTIME FUN The Waco Wonderland festival features a Ferris Wheel,
pictured in this Dec. 2015 file photo, train rides and a snow tube hill from Dec.
2 to Dec. 4 in downtown Waco.

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Waco kicks off the holiday
season this weekend with the fourth
annual Waco Wonderland event
downtown at Heritage Square Park.
“Basically, we’re just kicking
off the holiday season,” said
Jonathan Cook, who oversees the
event management and production
for the city of Waco. “The event is
built around the large, 32-foot tree
downtown. It’s a family friendly
event for all ages and a good way
for people to come and hang out
downtown.”
Waco Wonderland is an
event put on by the City of Waco
Department of Parks and Recreation
for people of all ages to get in the
spirit of the holiday season. There
will be food from 12 food trucks
and the Mistletoe Market with 20
distinct vendors. There will also be
a Ferris Wheel and a snow hill that

attendees can ride down in a tube.
Holiday-themed entertainment and
music will be provided on a stage.
“I’m really excited to give our
customers a chance to put a face
to the name,” said Hunter Gorman,
founder and owner of E2 Creative,
one of the vendors at the Mistletoe
Market. “We don’t have a retail
store or a physical location for
people to come and meet us, so I’m
really excited to get out there and
see the community and the people
that order stuff from us all the time.”
Gorman graduated from Baylor
in May. E2 Creative is a custom
wood and metal work shop in Waco.
E2 Creative will be selling some of
its products and showcasing custom
work. Gorman said the Mistletoe
Market will be a cool, fun way to
engage the community with the
things E2 Creative is doing.
Cook said this event is a

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The value
of tradition
KELSEA WILLENBROCK
Reporter
The
holiday
season is quickly
approaching,
families
are
beginning to plan
their get-togethers,
and family tradition
is at the center of
all the excitement.
This time of year
is filled with the
hustle and bustle of picking out gifts,
baking goodies and spending time with
family.
Every culture and religion has its own
unique traditions. For Christians, the
Bible holds many of our traditions. The
whole year is carefully planned around
upholding this meaningful season. And
while Christmas tends to dominate
other celebrations, there are many others
like it. For example, Kwanzaa is a holiday
observed in African cultures. It celebrates
the African diaspora in the West each
December. Each culture around the
world has celebrations and times they
observe as important throughout the
year. Different countries and cultures
celebrate Christmas differently, each
uniquely and equally meaningful.
Learning about the traditions kept by
other cultures reveals what they value.
Traditions connect people from
different generations. Many families
have things passed down from
generation to generation such as recipes,
stories or mementos. These things
hold sentimental value as they are
representative of the people they came
from. Traditions serve as a common
denominator in family gatherings, like
a framework for holiday festivities. They
hold everything together each year,
from making the same types of cookies
to Christmas morning schedules.
Every family celebrates the holiday
season differently, with some following
countless traditions and some making it
a tradition to celebrate differently each
year.
There is something rich and
meaningful about doing things the same
way year after year. While there is change
and uncertainty throughout the year,
traditions during the holiday season
remain something to look forward to.
In my family, I am the one who makes
sure all traditions are followed. I make
sure things go the way they always have
even to the point of my family teasing
me for it — all in good fun, of course.
Christmas wouldn’t be the same without
going to the mountains to cut down our
tree or going sledding on Christmas Eve,
two of the traditions that my family has
kept throughout my lifetime.
There is a reason why holidays are
celebrated year after year and traditions
are kept from generation to generation.
If it wasn’t fundamentally important
to the human spirit to keep cultural
celebrations consistent and meaningful,
we might be inventing new holidays each
year. I think part of the reason we value
tradition is because it binds us both to
the past and the future. Looking back in
history books and family photo albums,
we see pictures of people celebrating
holidays, especially Christmas, in similar
ways as we do today.
Over the next month, as Christmas
music plays from radio stations and
shopping centers and calendars fill up
with ugly sweater parties, take a minute
to enjoy partaking in tradition. Don’t
forget to take a picture to look back on
someday.
Kelsea Willenbrock is a junior
journalism major from Gig Harbor,
Wash.

You’ve
been
diagnosed
with terminal cancer. It has
metastasized in your lungs, your
bones, your lymph nodes; you have
only weeks, months, years, and the
best of modern medicine is doing
little to abate your suffering. You’re
exhausted. You’re dying.
Given the chance, would you
take the opportunity to use an
unapproved drug smuggled in
from another country?
Because of the extensive, multitiered drug approval process
implemented by the U.S. Food
and Drug Administration (FDA),
many people with terminal
diagnoses are doing just this, a
movement that serves to highlight
the immediate need for the FDA
to create a streamlined system to
approve drugs already in use in
other countries.
According to the U.S. Food
and Drug Administration website,
the drug approval process in the
United States requires drugs to be
evaluated through three phases of
testing before being submitted as
part of a “New Drug Application”
to the FDA. The testing process
can take several years, and once
submitted to the FDA, the approval
process aims to take approximately
10 months for standard drugs and
six months for priority drugs.
This time-intensive process is
in place to do everything possible
to ensure that the drugs offered to
Americans are truly helpful. It is
designed to expose the weaknesses,
limitations and drawbacks of
potential drugs so that they can be
used as safely as possible, but this
same process that aims to protect
patients has also proven itself to
be cumbersome, rigid, and in
desperate need of an update.
A recent New York Times
article titled “A Souvenir Smuggled
Home from Cuba: A Cancer
Vaccine,” revealed the stories of
several Americans diagnosed
with cancer who, in the absence
of effective, FDA-approved cancer
treatments, traveled to Cuba to
obtain a drug which they then
smuggled back to the U.S. The
drug, Cimavax, was designed to
stop the growth and recurrence of
non-small-cell lung cancer and has
been available to patients in Cuba
since 2011. The article stated that

since then, dozens of Americans
have traveled to Cuba for the sole
purpose of purchasing the drug in
hopes that it could help in a way
that the drugs available in America
could not.
According to the FDA website:
“In most circumstances, it is
illegal for individuals to import
drugs or devices into the United
States for personal use because
these products purchased from
other countries often have not
been approved by FDA for use
and sale in the United States.
For example, a drug approved
for use in another country but
not approved by FDA would be
considered an unapproved drug
in the United States and, therefore,
illegal to import.”
To put this in more concise
terms:
Bringing
non-FDA
approved drugs into the United
States, even with the sole intent of
personal use, is illegal. Regardless
of how long a drug has been in use
in other countries, regardless of
the testing regime to which it has
been subjected in other countries,
regardless of the potential to be
lifesaving, importing drugs not
approved by the FDA is illegal.
While the base tenet of this law
makes sense — the FDA wants to

ensure that all drugs in use in the
United States are held to its specific
standards — the law is rigid to
the point that it actually limits
the options available to terminally
ill patients. While it should not
be done away with completely,
the law certainly needs to be
revamped. Instead of generally
banning imported, unapproved
drugs, the FDA should implement
a fast track program for drugs
that have been in use successfully
in other countries for a certain
period of time. By making use of
the research already conducted
by the country in which the drug
originated, the FDA can make
imported drugs that have been
proven to significantly improve
or lengthen the lives of terminally
ill patients more quickly, legally
available to U.S. citizens.
Such a program would certainly
need to be accompanied by several
caveats. Potential users would need
to be informed that the drug they
are trying has been subject to a
different and abbreviated testing
regime than is considered the
norm. The FDA would need to
decide to what standard they will
hold foreign drugs and what is an
acceptable level of risk. That said,
Americans, particularly those

diagnosed with terminal illnesses,
should have the option to take
risky, less stringently tested drugs if
they so wish, and an FDA fast track
would help make this possible.
The FDA approval process is
so lengthy that it prevents today’s
patients from having access to
potentially
lifesaving
drugs.
Cimavax, for example, has now
been introduced into the U.S.
drug approval process, where it
will likely spend years in clinical
trials. Creating an expedited drug
approval process specifically for
drugs already commonly available
in other countries would provide
new opportunities for patients
who have already exhausted their
options in the United States or
whose diagnoses are unaffected by
current FDA-approved drugs.
Mick Phillips, a U.S. cancer
patient who travels to Cuba
annually to obtain vials of
Cimavax, said it best in a New York
Times article: “There’s no doubt
that without this medicine, I would
be dead.”
The FDA needs an update.
Patients diagnosed with terminal
illnesses need help — and hope —
now, not several years down the
road.

COLUMN

Black Friday: The good, the bad, the ugly
GENESIS LARIN
Assistant Web Editor
The holidays have
taken a back seat to Black
Friday and Cyber Monday.
Thanksgiving, Kwanzaa,
Hanukkah,
Christmas,
they are all becoming more
known for shopping deals
than for the delicious food
and family time.
Most
understand
Black Friday as an event
where retail stores provide discounts in order
to achieve positive revenue or get into the
“black.” However, the origins of “Black Friday”
are darker than many may know, according a
history.com article.
“Back in the 1950s, police in the city of
Philadelphia used the term to describe the chaos
that ensued on the day after Thanksgiving,
when hordes of suburban shoppers and tourists
flooded into the city in advance of the big ArmyNavy football game held on that Saturday every
year,” the article states.

In addition, the article goes on to say that the
police officers would have to work long hours as
a result of the phenomenon. While Black Friday
is now viewed in a more positive light — thanks
in part to the retailers promoting irresistible
deals — the long hours that the police officers
had to work in the ’50s is eerily similar to the
long hours that employees have to work today
for Black Friday.
Since stores open earlier and stay open
longer, many employees work at least eight
hour shifts. As a past retail employee, I would
work eight to ten hours on Black Friday.
This year, some stores opened their doors
in the afternoon/evening on Thanksgiving
Day. JCPenny, for instance, opened at 3 p.m.
Thanksgiving Day, and Target and Walmart
opened at 6 p.m. Thanksgiving Day, according
to theblackfriday.com.
This caused many people to miss spending
time with their families because they were
either working or shopping, which tends to
happen again in December. It seems that
making sure not to miss out on a good deal is
becoming more important than spending time
with family.

While Cyber Monday may be a better
alternative, there are drawbacks to that event,
too. Because many online websites allow “early
access” deals by releasing sales before Monday,
shoppers invest more time on their phones or
computers shopping online despite being with
their family. In addition, manufacturers, like
retail employees, are having to spend more time
working to fulfill online orders and are once
again spending less time with their family for
the holiday.
This shopping craze undercuts the purpose
of Thanksgiving, and bleeds through into the
Christmas season, which is supposed to be about
sharing time and reflecting on one's blessings
with friends and family. Not to mention we are
destroying possibly the only positive historical
interaction that the colonists had with the native
peoples by prioritizing saving 15 percent on a
purchase. Perhaps next year we can attempt to
give our time to our friends and family instead
of taking away the time employees could have
had with their family and friends.
Genesis Larin is a junior English major from
Houston.

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Terrorism suspected in attack at Ohio State
ANDREW WELSH-HUGGINS
AND JULIE CARR SMYTH
Associated Press
COLUMBUS, Ohio — A Somali-born Ohio
State University student plowed his car into a
group of pedestrians on campus and then got
out and began stabbing people with a butcher
knife Monday before he was shot to death by a
police officer. Police said they are investigating
whether it was a terrorist attack.
Eleven people were hurt, one critically.
The attacker was identified as Abdul Razak
Ali Artan. He was born in Somalia and was a
legal permanent U.S. resident, according to a
U.S. official who wasn’t authorized to discuss the
case and spoke on condition of anonymity. The
FBI joined the investigation.
The details emerged after a morning of
confusion and conflicting reports, created in
part by a series of tweets from the university
warning that there was an “active shooter” on
campus and that students should “run, hide,
fight.” The warning was apparently prompted by
what turned out to be police gunfire.
Numerous police vehicles and ambulances
converged on the 60,000-student campus,
and authorities blocked off roads. Students
barricaded themselves inside offices and
classrooms, piling chairs and desks in front of
doors, before getting the all-clear an hour and
a half later.
Ohio State Police Chief Craig Stone said that
the assailant deliberately drove his small gray car
over a curb outside an engineering classroom
building and then began knifing people.
A campus officer who happened to be nearby
because of a gas leak arrived on the scene and

shot the driver in less than a minute, Stone said.
Angshuman Kapil, a graduate student, was
outside Watts Hall when the car barreled onto
the sidewalk.
“It just hit everybody who was in front,” he
said. “After that everybody was shouting, ‘Run!
Run! Run!’”
Student Martin Schneider said he heard the
car’s engine revving.
“I thought it was an accident initially until I
saw the guy come out with a knife,” Schneider
said, adding that the man didn’t say anything
when he got out.
Most of the injured were hurt by the car, and
at least two were stabbed, officials said. One had
a fractured skull.
Asked at a news conference whether
authorities were considering the possibility it
was a terrorist act, Columbus Police Chief Kim
Jacobs said: “I think we have to consider that it
is.”
Rep. Adam Schiff of California, the top
Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee,
said that while the bloodshed is still under
investigation, it “bears all of the hallmarks of a
terror attack carried out by someone who may
have been self-radicalized.”
“Here in the United States, our most
immediate threat still comes from lone attackers
that are not only capable of unleashing great
harm, but are also extremely difficult, and in
some cases, virtually impossible to identify or
interdict,” he said.
Ohio State’s student newspaper, The Lantern,
ran an interview in August with a student
named Abdul Razak Artan, who identified
himself as a Muslim and a third-year logistics
management student who had just transferred

Associated Press

CAMPUS STABBING Crime scene investigators collect evidence from the pavement Monday as
police respond to an attack on campus at Ohio State University in Columbus, Ohio.

from Columbus State in the fall.
He said he was looking for a place to pray
openly and worried about how he would be
received.
“I was kind of scared with everything going
on in the media. I’m a Muslim, it’s not what
media portrays me to be,” he told the newspaper.
“If people look at me, a Muslim praying, I don’t
know what they’re going to think, what’s going

to happen. But I don’t blame them. It’s the media
that put that picture in their heads.”
Surveillance photos showed Artan in
the car by himself just before the attack, but
investigators were looking into whether anyone
else was involved, the campus police chief said.
The officer who gunned the attacker down
was identified as 28-year-old Alan Horujko, a
nearly two-year member of the force.

PAYING RESPECTS An elderly man wearing military medals holds his
hand over his heart after paying his final respects to the late Fidel Castro in
Havana, Cuba, Monday. Cuba’s government has declared nine days of national
mourning following Castro’s death Friday night at age 90.

HAVANA — Hundreds of
thousands of Cubans bade farewell
to Fidel Castro on Monday, pledging
allegiance to his socialist ideology
and paying tribute before images of
the leader as a young guerrilla gazing
out over the country he would come
to rule for nearly half a century.
Lines stretched for hours outside
the Plaza of the Revolution, the
massive plaza where Castro delivered
fiery speeches to hundreds of

thousands of supporters in the years
after he seized power.
There and across the country,
people signed condolence books and
an oath of loyalty to Castro’s sweeping
May 1, 2000, proclamation of the
Cuban revolution as an unending
battle for socialism, nationalism and
an outside role for the island on the
world stage.
Tribute sites were set up in
hundreds of places across the country
as the government urged Cubans
to reaffirm their belief in a socialist,
single-party system that in recent
years has struggled to maintain the
fervor that was widespread at the

triumph of the 1959 revolution.
Many mourners came on their
own, but thousands of others were
sent in groups by the communist
government, which still employs
about 80 percent of the working
people in Cuba despite the growth
of the private sector under Castro’s
successor, his brother Raul.
On Wednesday, Castro’s ashes
will begin a three-day procession
east across Cuba, retracing the march
of his bearded rebel army from the
Sierra Maestra to the capital. The
ashes will be interred on Sunday in
Santa Ifigenia cemetery in Santiago,
Cuba’s second-largest city.

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Church shooting suspect to act as attorney
MEG KINNARD
AND JEFFREY COLLINS
Associated Press
CHARLESTON, S.C. — The white
man accused of fatally shooting nine black
parishioners at a church was allowed Monday
to act as his own attorney, opening the door to
courtroom spectacles at his death penalty trial,
including Dylann Roof questioning survivors of
the attack and relatives of the dead.
Roof’s decision to represent himself
comes months after he offered to plead guilty
in exchange for the promise of life in prison.
But federal prosecutors have refused to take
the death penalty off the table in the slayings
at Emanuel AME Church in Charleston. Until
now, Roof has been represented by one of the
nation’s most respected capital defenders.
He joins a long line of high-profile
defendants who acted
as their own attorneys,
often with poor results.
Serial
killer
Ted
Bundy, Beltway sniper
John Allen Muhammed
and Army Major Nidal
Hasan, who killed 13
people at the Fort Hood
military base in Texas,
ended up with death
Roof
sentences.
After
firing
their lawyers, Long
Island Rail Road shooter Colin Ferguson was
sentenced to 200 years in prison, and 9/11
conspirator Zacarias Moussaoui was sent away
for life.
Defendants who act as their own lawyers
generally want to bring attention to their causes
and publicize their actions. That almost always
runs counter to the advice of lawyers, who urge

them not to incriminate themselves.
“They think they have a message and that’s
unfortunately what leads to these crimes in the
first place,” said New York attorney Tiffany
Frigenti, author of an article called “Flying
Solo Without a License: The Right of Pro Se
Defendants to Crash and Burn” for her law
school journal.
Pro se representation can also lead to
uncomfortable courtroom encounters between
defendants and their victims or those victims’
families if they are questioned by the very
person who is accused of shattering their lives.
“It can seem beneficial. Nobody believes in
your cause and case more than you,” Frigenti
said. “But it only works that way in very rare
cases — usually appeals.”
With Roof acting in his own defense, there is
plentiful opportunity for explosive or awkward
courtroom moments. Just hours after his arrest,
some of the victims’ relatives attended Roof’s
initial court appearance and said they forgave
him and would pray for him. If he continues as
his own lawyer, Roof could end up questioning
those same family members in court.
In approving Roof’s request to act as his
own lawyer, U.S. District Judge Richard
Gergel also appointed his defense team to stay
on as standby counsel, available for advice
and assistance throughout the trial. That team
includes celebrated death penalty attorney
David Bruck, who slid down one seat and let
Roof take the lead chair after the judge’s order
Monday.
Roof’s motion came the same day jury
selection resumed in the case, a process halted
Nov. 7 after lawyers for Roof questioned his
ability to understand the case against him. After
a hasty two-day competency hearing, Gergel
last week ruled that Roof was competent to
stand trial.
Roof has also been found competent in state

Associated Press

ON TRIAL Officers with the Department of Homeland Security patrol outside the federal
courthouse on Monday in Charleston, S.C. Jury selection has been postponed in the federal case
of Dylann Roof on trial for fatally shooting nine black parishioners at Emanuel AME Church last
year.

court, where prosecutors plan a second deathpenalty trial on nine counts of murder.
During the juror qualification, Roof sat at
the defense table occasionally conferring with
Bruck. He registered few objections to jurors,
agreeing with Gergel about a man’s statements
that the crime being in a church made it more
worrisome to him and also saying a woman’s
death penalty views made her a good juror.
Otherwise, Roof sat in his chair, sometimes
looking at papers spread out before him.
Beginning Monday, 20 potential jurors
per day are reporting to the courthouse for
individual questioning by the judge. When 70

qualified jurors are picked, attorneys can use
strikes to dismiss those they don’t want, until
12 jurors and six alternates are seated.
According to police, Roof sat through nearly
an hour of prayer and Bible study at the church
with its pastor and 11 others before pulling a
gun from his fanny pack and firing dozens of
shots.
Roof shouted racial insults at the six women
and three men he is charged with killing and at
the survivors, authorities said. He said he left
three people unharmed so they could tell the
world the shootings were because he hated
black people.

High court to examine mental health, death penalty
MICHAEL GRACZYK
Associated Press
HOUSTON — The U.S. Supreme Court is
set to examine whether the nation’s busiest state
for capital punishment is trying to put to death
a convicted killer who’s intellectually disabled,
which would make him ineligible for execution
under the court’s current guidance.
Lawyers for prisoner Bobby James Moore,

57, contend that the Texas Court of Criminal
Appeals, the state’s highest criminal court,
ignored current medical standards and required
use of outdated standards when it decided
Moore isn’t mentally disabled. That ruling
removed a legal hurdle to Moore’s execution
for the shotgun slaying of a Houston grocery
store clerk in 1980.
The Texas court is a “conspicuous outlier”
among state courts and “defies both the
Constitution and common sense,” Clifford

Sloan, Moore’s lead lawyer, told the justices
in written briefs submitted ahead of Tuesday’s
scheduled oral arguments. Such a “head-inthe-sand approach ... ignores advances in
the medical community’s understanding and
assessment of intellectual disability over the
past quarter century,” he wrote.
Moore’s lawyers want his death sentence set
aside, contending his punishment would violate
the Constitution’s ban on cruel and unusual
punishment and the Supreme Court’s 2002

ruling in a North Carolina case that prohibited
execution of the mentally disabled.
The Texas attorney general’s office says
the state “fully complies” with Supreme Court
precedents. The state points to its use of 1992
clinical definitions for intellectual disability as
cited by the high court in its 2002 decision. And
the office says it has consulted and considered
more recent standards.

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WONDERLAND from Page A1
collaboration with the city of Waco,
the downtown public improvement
and the City Center of Waco.
Cook’s department is in charge
of management production, but it
is a true community event where
everyone works together, Cook said.
A similar event took place in the past
then fizzled out, but about five years
ago the city realized that it needed a
downtown event centered around the

holidays, and then came the idea to
create a weekend centered around the
lighting of the Christmas tree. Now it
is one of the largest events hosted in
downtown Waco, Cook said.
“I’m personally most excited for
the snow tube, because in the past
years we have had an ice rink,” Cook
said. “I’m a kid at heart, though, and
I’m looking forward to going down
the hill.”

A $5 wristband will allow
unlimited rides on the Ferris Wheel,
access to the snow tube hill, train
rides and visits to the petting zoo.
Downtown carriage rides are $5 per
ride and not included in the wristband
price. A full schedule for these events
can be found on the Waco Wonderland
website, as well as a schedule of the
holiday entertainment stage.
“We call it food, fun and cheer

because it’s a good way to showcase
downtown Waco,” Cook said.
At 6:45 p.m. Friday, the tree will
be lit. The tree lighting ceremony will
be followed by a fireworks show over
downtown Waco. The holiday parade
will kick off at 10 a.m. Saturday
along Austin Avenue, beginning at
14th Street and ending at Heritage
Square. Santa will also be available
for photos in a wooden Santa house

from 5 to 10 p.m. Friday, 11:30 a.m.
to 10 p.m. Saturday, noon to 6 p.m.
Sunday and then from noon to 3 p.m.
Saturday Dec. 10 and Dec. 17.
“We would love to see a ton of
Baylor kids out there,” Gorman said.
“It’s an awesome event and a great
time for everyone in between kid and
adult. We would love the support.”

NOZE from Page A1
said Lori Fogleman, assistant vice
president for media relations and crisis
communications.
Nashville, Tenn., sophomore James
Worsham is familiar with the NoZe
Brother’s pranks, and said he appreciated
the banner.
“First of all, it wasn’t really
destructive or pointlessly inflammatory.
Though it reflects some of the distaste
many students, including myself, have
with the administration at Baylor, it
is ultimately more about humor than
anything else.”
Redlands, Calif., sophomore Garrett
Collins had not heard of the NoZe
Brothers previously but said he thinks
organizations should speak publicly
about their beliefs even if they are
unpopular.
“I think their points are clever and are
true statements, but I’m not sure what
they’re getting at,” Collins said. “If the
point is that Briles knew, he’s gone, so
there’s not much more the school can
do on that front, but they should keep
calling out the Board of Regents if they
believe there is still more the university
needs to do.”
Collins said he thinks it was a bold
move to hang the theses on Waco Hall.
He said he has a lot more respect for the
organization for risking getting in trouble
with the university to post something like

this.
“I think putting it on Waco Hall
was smart because everyone will see
it,” Collins said. “You can’t ignore it if
it is in the middle of campus. A much
safer move would have been to chalk it
somewhere or just post it online.”
The Lariat reached out to the
NoZe Brothers for comment but had
not received a response at the time of
publication.
The theses reads as follows:
Behold when Jesus Christ said,
“repent” he willed the entire life of
believers to be one of repentance
Remember: Liquor before beer, have
no fear, but beer before liquor, never
been sicker.
If one is interim president, one should
shave their beard
Look the other way when crossing a
road, not when running a university
Excluding a NoZe party, never drink
the punch
Secrets are meant to be kept unless
you’re the Board of Regents
Knock knock! Who’s there? Ken. Ken
who? Ken you find me a new job?
NoZebody NoZe what it means, but
it’s provocative
Everyone wearing black doesn’t
change that Briles knew
When you want to be a NoZe brother
remember….

VIGIL from Page A1
Cantrell is majoring in journalism,
public relations and minoring in
entrepreneurship. He is a newly
initiated member of Sigma Chi and is
also employed at The View on 10th.
Amy Whitlock Burton, Cantrell’s
cousin, said Cantrell and his
mother, Nancy Cantrell, traveled to
Brookhaven, Miss., for Thanksgiving

to spend time with their great aunt
and other cousins.
After midnight on Friday morning,
Burton said a loud thump was heard
and that Cantrell was unresponsive
in the bathroom with the door locked
after what appeared to be a seizure.
The paramedics were called, and
Cantrell was taken to a hospital in

Beginning to look a lot like Christmas

Liesje Powers | Photo Editor

‘TIS THE SEASON Burleson Quadrangle is lit up with lights in preparation for the Christmas on Fifth
Street celebration, which will take place Thursday evening. A Christmas tree stands in the quad ready
to be decorated.

Brookhaven. He was then transferred
to University of Mississippi Medical
Center.
“Because of the lack of oxygen,
his brain is swollen and he is critical,”
Burton said. “Doctors aren’t giving
much hope, but we believe the Great
Physician is the ultimate healer.”
As of press time Monday, Cantrell

was still in critical condition with the
beginnings of kidney failure but has
been responding to touch and song
with movement, family members
said. Cantrell’s stepmother, April
Weller Cantrell, said in a Facebook
post that the family has been touched
by the support of her stepson’s
friends.

“We been so moved by the out
pouring of love and prayers for
Chase,” Weller Cantrell wrote. “We
and his family know how very special
he is, but it’s uplifting to know he is
so widely loved and respected.”

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Wearing his heart on his sleeve
Heart transplant
recipient smiles
throughout his
29- year miracle
KAREN GARLOCH
Tribune News Service
CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Twenty-nine years
ago this month, I watched in wonder as surgeons
at Carolinas Medical Center performed a heart
transplant on a 48-year-old man.
Even today, transplanting a heart is a big
deal. But in 1987, the Charlotte program was
less than two years old. As a young health
writer, I was excited to don a gown and mask
and witness this unusual procedure up close.
James Brock, the longest surviving heart
transplant recipient from Carolinas Medical
Center, shares a laugh with his wife Louise. He
has lived for 29 years since his operation, four
years short of the apparent world record of 33
years. Dr. Sanjeev Gulati, a cardiologist and
medical director of heart failure and transplant
services for Sanger Heart and Vascular Institute
at Carolinas HealthCare System. James Brock,
the longest surviving heart transplant recipient
from Carolinas Medical Center, shares a laugh
with his wife Louise.
He has lived for 29 years since his operation,
four years short of the apparent world record of
33 years. Dr. Sanjeev Gulati, a cardiologist and
medical director of heart failure and transplant
services for Sanger Heart and Vascular Institute
at Carolinas HealthCare System.
When I entered the operating room, the
patient, whose name I did not know, was on
the table. His chest had been cut open, and
his diseased heart had already been removed.
The donor heart, from a 35-year-old man in
Asheville, had just arrived in a red and white
Igloo cooler. I stood nearby as the surgeons
connected the healthy new organ to the patient’s
blood vessels.
Two weeks later, the Charlotte Observer
published my article, “Man-Made Miracle.” I
didn’t think much more about that patient —
until a few weeks ago.
That’s when a spokeswoman for Sanger
Heart and Vascular Institute at Carolinas
HealthCare System asked if I’d like to interview
the program’s longest-living heart transplant
recipient.
She told me James Brock, of Cheraw, S.C.,
has lived with his donor heart for 29 years.
She said his transplant was the subject of an
Observer article in 1987. But when I searched
the archives, I couldn’t find it under his name.
That’s when it became clear: He was that
anonymous patient whose operation I’d
watched.
Although I hadn’t known his name, Brock
had given permission for me and former
Observer photographer Mark Sluder to be in the
OR that day. He and his wife, Louise, saved the
article, and they brought along their yellowed
copy when we finally met earlier this month.
Now 77, Brock is one of the longest-living

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HEART HEALTHY James and Louise Brock hold a copy of the Charlotte Observer from Nov. 29, 1987, showing a photo of his heart transplant
operation. He’s the longest surviving heart transplant recipient whose operation was performed at Carolinas Medical Center.

heart transplant recipients in the world – just
four years short of the apparent record holder,
John McCafferty of the United Kingdom, who
lived 33 years after his transplant.
Thanks to the Charlotte transplant, Brock
and his wife have been married for 58 years.
But they’ve known each other since childhood,
when their families were neighbors in a rural
area about 70 miles southeast of Charlotte.
They’re down-to-earth people — “Just plain,
simple country folk,” in Louise Brock’s words.
Even when James Brock says, “I still can’t believe
it,” his voice is so calm you might think he’s
talking about the warm weather in November.
Before his transplant, Brock had been on the
waiting list for seven months. But he’d been sick
much longer.
He had his first heart attack when he was 36.
“I thought I was a goner,” he said. He returned to
work for the CSX railroad in Hamlet, N.C. But
heart problems ran in the family — his father
died from a heart attack at 47 — and his disease
worsened.
In 1985, he had open-heart surgery and went
on medical disability. “I couldn’t do anything,”
he said.
“He had to sit in his lounge chair,” Louise
Brock added.

In early 1987, he was out in his yard when
he “felt a spell coming on” and staggered to the
neighbor’s house for help. A medical helicopter
flew from Charlotte to pick him up. “They said
most all of his blood had been pumped out of
his heart,” Louise Brock said.
James Brock went home from the hospital,
unsure of his future. But the next day, on Nov.
11, the call came about the donor heart, giving
him the chance to have 29 more years with his
growing family.
The Brocks have three children, and before
the transplant, they’d had two grandchildren.
Since the transplant, they’ve welcomed
three more grandchildren and three greatgrandchildren. They’ve also traveled a little,
including a trip out West that included Mount
Rushmore, the Crazy Horse Memorial and
Dodge City. James Brock was also able to return
to hunting, his lifelong hobby. In recent weeks,
he bagged two deer.
He still takes drugs to fend off rejection of his
foreign heart. But dosages have decreased, and
he’s down from 16 medicines to six. He visits the
Sanger medical team in Charlotte twice a year
and gets his blood tested every three months.
For years, Louise Brock washed her husband’s
clothes separately. “We had to be careful about

germs,” she said. Still, when he gets sick, she
said, “We rush him to the doctor.” But it’s been
mostly cold viruses, nothing serious.
Dr. Sanjeev Gulati, a cardiologist and medical
director of Sanger’s heart failure and transplant
services, said there are multiple reasons Brock
has done so well.
Except for his heart, he was relatively healthy
before the transplant. The donor heart was
healthy and transported quickly to CMC. That
allowed surgeons to complete the operation well
within the six-hour time limit.
Over 30 years, surgeons at CMC have
performed 489 adult heart transplants, with 21
in 2015 and 22 so far this year. CMC has the
busiest program in the Carolinas behind Duke
University, which performed 40 adult heart
transplants in 2015. One Duke patient has also
survived 29 years.
Demand for hearts is greater than available
donors, so the number of U.S. transplants
remains flat – 2,254 in 2015.
Brock was lucky to be matched with a donor
before it was too late, Gulati said. “He has done a
fantastic job of taking care of himself and taking
his new heart seriously ... To see someone go
from the brink of death to a new life, it’s really
incredible.”

Rowling’s new addition shows diverse magic
LINDSEY MCLEMORE
Reporter
J.K. Rowling’s “Fantastic Beasts
and Where to Find Them” is an
expansion of the Harry Potter
universe that also invites new and
returning audiences to find their
place in the wizarding world.
As a lifetime fan, I spent the entire
film wand-in-hand and on the edge of
my seat. The second time I saw it, I
brought friends who had never seen
Harry Potter before — their eyes were
wide and their mouths open in awe
from start to finish.
Newt
Scamander
(Eddie
Redmayne) is a lovably awkward
magi-zoologist (and easily my new
favorite character in the entire
franchise) who arrives in New York
City with an entire case of fantastic,
magical creatures. When some of
those creatures escape, he must
capture them quickly.
Scamander’s
passion
for
misunderstood
creatures
and
his mission to make them more
incorporated into the magical
community make him a welcomed
hero to the Harry Potter universe.
The film takes place 70 years
before Harry Potter’s adventures at
Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and
Wizardry, and the important role
of Jacob Kowalski (Dan Fogler), a
no-maj (American wizarding term

MOVIE REVIEW
for non-magical people), helps new
audiences learn the terms and rules
of the wizarding world. However,
Kowalski serves a much higher
purpose than just asking questions,
which is something I was worried
about going in.
Having an adult cast meant darker
and more mature situations than
would have been appropriate for a
new class of grade-school wizards.
Fans like myself, who grew up with
the series, were still able to relate to
the characters on a more personal
level.
In the 1920s, when the film
occurs, Gellert Grindelwald causes
massive attacks throughout Europe
and then goes missing. Grindelwald
intends to lead a revolution in which
the magical community will no
longer live in hiding. Considered one
of the most dangerous dark wizards
of all time in later films, Grindelwald
refers to the underground magical
community as “rats in the gutter,” to
which he “refuses to bow down any
longer.”
If Grindelwald is the wizarding
world’s Adolf Hitler, he makes Lord
Voldemort look like Mussolini.
Knowing what little bit of his
backstory has been given, I am very
excited to see the development of his
character in future films.

Similarly, the Second Salemers, a
group of no-majs who spend much
of the movie trying to convince
the general public that witches
and wizards are a very real and
pressing danger, are demanding
the investigation (and likely massburnings) of suspected witches.
However, their place in the future of
the series is uncertain to say the least.

This and the presentation of
American governance in contrast
to the aspects of British governance

presented in the previous Harry
Potter films (particularly capital
punishment) leads me to question
whether this film was intended to
build up the overall plot or just present
the differences between American
and British wizarding culture.
While no unforgivable curses
(killing curse, mind control, immense
physical pain) are seen in this film,
there is a dark sequence in which one
character is sentenced to self-inflicted
death.
From a technical standpoint,
“Fantastic Beasts” does have some
problems. Overall, the screenplay is
kind of rough.
There are not many plot holes,
but the ultimate revelation of
Grindelwald’s character seemed to
come out of nowhere — even with
extensive knowledge of the expanded
universe. There was no dialogue or
even presentation of his identity to the
audience, but somehow Scamander
knows who he is.
The film seemed oddly paced
at times – maybe one too many
fantastic beasts and not enough
development of the overall plot of the
series. A subplot involving a senator
and a newspaper didn’t seem to go
anywhere and honestly could have
been excluded.
It was a bold move for Rowling to
write the screenplay, but after seeing
the film a few times, I understand

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IT’S FANTASTIC Eddie Redmayne
stars as Newt Scamander in a scene
from the movie “Fantastic Beasts
and Where to Find Them.” The
magical and action packed film is
directed by David Yates.

why. If anyone else had done it, it
wouldn’t have been as personal.
Rowling was able to create a new
story, confirm long-discussed fan
theories about the universe and still
make new audiences feel included in
the magic.
Quick subtle references to the
existing Harry Potter universe
(Quidditch positions and Hufflepuff
scarves) felt like coming home.

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Christmas on Fifth enchants campus
This week
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PABLO GONZALES
Contributor
As the fall semester
draws to a close, many
Baylor
students
look
forward to celebrating the
holiday season with events
such as Christmas on Fifth
Street.
Christmas on Fifth
Street is a cherished
tradition among the Baylor
community as shown by
the number of people that
attend. Students, faculty
and community members
gather on campus on the last
Thursday of the fall semester
for a time of celebration and
fellowship. The department
of Student Activities, the
Baylor Activities Council
and Kappa Omega Tau have
partnered to sponsor this
event.
“We look forward to
putting on this event every
year,” said Leander junior
Parth Amin, executive
program
coordinator
for the Baylor Activities
Council. “This event brings
so much joy and lightens up
the mood on campus before
the semester ends.”
Fifth Street is the main
street that goes through the
heart of the Baylor campus.
The street is decorated
during the Thanksgiving
break. When students
return, they see the street
adorned with Christmas
lights and other holiday

WONDERFUL SEASON Students enjoy the lights and Christmas decorations of Christmas on Fifth Street on December
3, 2015, between the Bill Daniel Student Center and Fountain Mall. (Right) Hannah Wendland from Houston, Brianna
Carmony from Texarkana, Kyndall Hill from Aledo, and Grace Van from Carrollton pose for a picture by the Christmas
tree farm sponsored by the Freshmen Class Council on December 3, 2015.

ornaments. During the
night of the event, the street
is lit up in celebration of the
holiday season.
“Traditions like these
mean a lot to me,” said
Colleyville junior Abby
Box. “The Christmas season
is a time for family, so being
away from home for the
first part of the holidays
is rough, but with these
traditions, Baylor feels
more like home.”

This event is catered
to the greater Waco
community, not just Baylor
students. There will be
performances from the
Baylor Religious Hour
Choir and the Columbus
Avenue Hand Bell Choir.
Pictures with Santa Claus,
a live nativity scene and a
petting zoo are among the
many available activities
The Multicultural Greek
Council will also host a

marketplace in the Bill
Daniel Student Center
where local artisans will
have merchandise on sale.
The main event of the night
is the Kappa Omega Tau
Christmas tree lighting
where everyone gathers on
Burleson Quadrangle to
watch the tree illuminated
in the night.
“I love the sense of
community created around
my favorite holiday,” said

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Midland junior Molly
Meeker. “It never seems to
grow old for me. I still get
a childish excitement each
year as we countdown to the
lighting.”
The event will take place
from 6:30 p.m. to 10:30 p.m.
Thursday on Fountain Mall,
Traditions Plaza, Burleson
Quadrangle and the Bill
Daniel Student Center. List
of events available at baylor.
edu/Christmason5th.

UNITED The Lady Bears pose together on Sunday after winning the Gulf Coast Showcase 85-68 over the eighth-ranked Ohio State Buckeyes. The Lady Bears will be in action at 7 p.m. Thursday at the
Ferrell Center as they take on Abilene Christian University.

Lady Bears take home the prize
NATHAN KEIL
Sports Writer
The Lady Bears took home the Gulf Coast
Showcase with an 85-68 victory over the eighthranked Ohio State Buckeyes on Sunday.
“Hey, they’ve got a really good basketball
team. Credit to them,” said Ohio State head
coach Kevin McGuff after the game. “We didn’t
have our best day in large part due to them. I
thought we played hard, but we just didn’t
execute well enough.”
The Lady Bears led the game from start to
finish and used a big second quarter, where
they outscored the Buckeyes 19-10, to build a
13-point advantage heading into intermission.
The Buckeyes remained competitive
throughout the second half but could never
manage a big run to get it back within striking
distance.
A major factor in that department was the
Lady Bears’ defense on the Buckeyes’ junior
guard Kelsey Mitchell, who finished with 17
points to lead Ohio State in scoring, but she
was held to just five of 20 shooting from the
field before eventually fouling out in the fourth
quarter.
Baylor continues to be a nightmare for
opposing teams on the glass. The Lady Bears
held a distinct 52-29 advantage and an 18-9
advantage on the offensive side.
Senior guard Alexis Jones got help on the

offensive end from junior guard Kristy Wallace
and sophomore post Beatrice Mompremier,
who contributed 15 and 13 points respectively
for the Lady Bears. Sophomore post Kalanai
Brown and senior forward Nina Davis also
finished in double figures.
One blemish for the Lady Bears came from
the free throw line, where they shot 19-32 for
59 percent.
Baylor defeated Kent State 84-42 in the
quarterfinal on Friday and 18th-ranked DePaul
104-72 in the semi-final to earn its spot against
Ohio State in the championship.
Wallace, who scored 15 points against the
Buckeyes on Sunday, contributed just 10 points
in Baylor’s first two wins of the tournament
but whose defense was pivotal, was named the
tournament’s most valuable player.
“Kristy had a phenomenal tournament and
very deserving of the award and all of that,” said
head coach Kim Mulkey. “But we can’t do it
alone. Our team defense was very good in this
tournament.”
Baylor improves to 7-1 on the season and 3-1
against teams ranked in the top 25, according
to the Associated Press and Coaches. Ohio State
drops to 5-2, 1-2 against teams ranked in the top
25.
The Lady Bears return to action at 7 p.m.
Thursday at the Ferrell Center, as they host
Abilene Christian University.

Courtesy of Danayla Odom-West

ABOVE THE REST Junior guard Kristy Wallace and sophomore post Beatrice Mompremier smile
with their awards after the tournament on Sunday.

Bears upset No. 10 Louisville for title
Bears overcome deficit to snag
championship in the Bahamas
MEGHAN MITCHELL
Sports Editor
The No. 20 Bears overcame a 22-point
deficit Friday to take home the Battle 4 Atlantis
title against the Louisville Cardinals 66-63 in
Paradise Islands, Bahamas.
Junior forward Jonathan Motley led the
Bears from the start, finishing the tournament
with 60 points, and was awarded the Most
Valuable Player.
“We have been a second half team all
tournament, but that one I guess took it to
extremes. I thought first half Louisville pounded
us on the glass, and towards the end of it half
to get a little rhythm,” head coach Scott Drew
said. “In the second half, we had the chance to
get back and gain some points. We kept missing
some easy shots, and then finally the guys stuck
with it. That is why it always takes a team to win
a tournament. We said we believe in our bench,
and they really came through and gave us a huge
lift tonight. King [McClure] got us going with
that spurt, and from there Motley took over
down the stretch. It is a much better feeling
when you are winning.”
Struggling to get things going early in the
game, the Bears found themselves down by as
many as 22, and 39-22 going into the half.
However, the Bears were no strangers to
being down at the half as they trailed VCU by
eight in their tournament opener on Wednesday
and by three against No. 24 Michigan State on
Thursday.
Coming back from the half, the Bears (6-0)
found themselves down 20 but were able to chip
away at the lead slowly. It was a 21-5 run, with

just under 10 minutes remaining in regulation,
led by Motley, that gave the Bears the victory.
“I am thankful for my teammates for getting
me in the right positions to score,” Motley said.
“I couldn’t do it by myself. It takes a team to win.
We played harder than them, and we got the W.”
However, the effort was not just a one-person
show, as sophomore guard King McClure
scored 15 points in the second half. Junior
forward Terry Maston also aided the Bears with
10 points in the second half. As a team in the
second half, the Bears shot 65 percent from the
field en route to their 66-63 upset victory over
No. 10 Louisville.
“A lot of times when teams are down like that,
they break apart. We came together. At halftime
we were in the locker room, and we said we have
been here before,” McClure said. “We started to
believe in ourselves. We are coming together,
and we are all in.”
Freshman Donovan Mitchell led the
Cardinals with 17 points, but it wasn’t enough
to get past the motivated Bears team. The
Cardinals went nine for 27 in the second half
with a shooting percentage of 33 percent.
“I saw it in their legs,” Cardinal head coach
Rick Pitino said. “Anytime a team doesn’t get
in the right defense, the right press, you know
it’s mental and physical fatigue. You see it right
away. But I didn’t make the substitutions ... It’s
my fault. I saw they were fatigued. I was just
hoping the timeouts could overcome it, but it
didn’t.”
The Bears will be back in action 8 p.m.
Wednesday at the Ferrell Center as they play
host to Sam Houston State.

Jessica Hubble | Lariat Photographer

LEAPING ABOVE Junior forward Jo Lual-Acuil and junior guard Ishmail Wainright battle to get the
rebound on Nov. 15 at the Ferrell Center against No. 4-ranked Oregon. The Bears won 74-67. With
the championship win in the Bahamas, the Bears remain undefeated.

Tuesday, November 29, 2016
The Baylor Lariat

Sports

B5

Football Flashbacks

Liesje Powers | Photo Editor

Alonzo Adams | Associated Press

A STEP AHEAD Senior running back Shock Linwood holds off Northwestern
State’s defense on Sept. 2 at McLane Stadium. Linwood rushed for 97 yards in
the game and currently holds the Baylor all-time rushing record.

OUT FOR THE COUNT Senior quarterback Seth Russell waves to the crowd as he is carted off the field after
an injury on Nov. 12 in the second half of a game against Oklahoma State in Norman, Oklahoma. The Bears
lost 45-24.

DayDay Wynn | Lariat Photographer

IN FOR THE TOUCHDOWN Redshirt freshman wide receiver Blake Lynch scores the first touchdown of the game in the second quarter against Kansas State on Nov. 19 at McLane Stadium. The
Bears lost to the Wildcats, 42-21.

Liesje Powers | Photo Editor

Liesje Powers | Photo Editor

TIPTOEING IN Junior wide receiver KD Cannon runs in a 59yard touchdown after the pass from senior quarterback Seth
Russell on Sept. 15 at McLane Stadium.

FACE MASKED Redshirt freshman running back JaMycal Hasty is grabbed by the face mask by a Texas Tech defender on
Friday at AT&T Stadium in Arlington. The Bears suffered their fifth straight loss, 54-35.

Bears continue to stumble
Baylor lost its
fifth straight
game Saturday
JORDAN SMITH
Sports Writer
ARLINGTON – The Baylor Bears fell in
the Texas Farm Insurance Bureau Shootout to
Texas Tech Friday 54-35, in front of the lowest
attending crowd recorded at the AT&T Stadium
in Arlington since 2011.
“You know, coaches are teachers,” said
head coach Jim Grobe. “And when kids are not
playing their best now, there is a trade-off for
ability. I mean, you got to have enough ability to
make plays. And there are times out there where
you just got to give Texas Tech’s kids credit. They
just made plays. They played well, and they beat
us.”
The Bears started the game strong, getting
on the board on their first drive after a 53-yard
touchdown pass on fourth down and three from
freshman quarterback Zach Smith to junior
wide receiver KD Cannon with 12:43 left in the
first quarter.
Cannon, with his ninth touchdown of the
season, tied Tevin Reese with the Baylor seventh
all-time single season touchdowns list.
Although the Bears got on the board quickly,
they ended the first quarter down, 20-7. The
Red Raiders capitalized on some costly mistakes
from the Bears, including a fumble and Baylor
only going two for five in third-down situations
in the first quarter.
“I knew we were going to have to go out there
and score a lot of points because Texas Tech is a
great team,” Smith said. “They’re going to score
a lot of points. I knew we had to throw the ball
around the yard. Just ended up missing a few
that were pretty important. They executed.”
Things continued to go downhill for the
Bears as the attempt to add to their score in the
second quarter was halted after a 37-yard field
goal attempt from junior place kicker Chris
Callahan was kicked wide right. Callahan is now
9-14 on the season in field goals and is 4-8 on
the season in field goals from the 30-39 yards
range.
The Bears were able to get on the board
again with 6:23 left in the second quarter as

Liesje Powers | Photo Editor

LEVELED Sophomore wide receiver Ishmael Zamora is tripped by a Texas Tech defender as he runs toward the goal line on Saturday at the AT&T
Stadium in Arlington. The Bears lost their fifth straight game, 54-35.

sophomore running back Terence Williams
scored on a nine-yard rushing touchdown to
make the score 34-14. However, the Red Raiders
responded right back as they scored another
touchdown to stop any momentum that Baylor
had.
Baylor scored another touchdown with a
21-yard pass from Smith to sophomore wide
receiver Ishmael Zamora to make it 41-21 with
56 seconds remaining until the break. The Bears
finished the half down, 41-21.
“The bottom line for us defensively is we
played really hard,” Grobe said. “We just gave
up too many big plays. I thought offensively we
were just too sloppy. We just didn’t handle the
ball very well. I think we had three fumbles in
the game. Actually, it’s six fumbles but lost three

of them, and they were big fumbles. I mean,
they really hurt us.”
In the third quarter, the Bears continued to
lack momentum as the gave up another passing
touchdown from quarterback Pat Mahomes
to make it 48-21. However, the Bears would
respond back on the following drive with a twoyard touchdown by Williams, his second of the
game.
Down 51-28 going into the fourth quarter,
the Bears continued to struggle as Texas Tech
went four-for-four in the red zone against the
Bears’ defense.
“They just did a great job of just making
plays in the red zone,” said senior linebacker
Aiavion Edwards. “When we got there, we
weren’t making the plays we needed. Those guys

did a great job today of finding the end zone.”
A nine-yard pass from Smith to Cannon
closed the gap to 51-35, but it was too little, too
late.
Later, an interception of Smith’s pass under
pressure with 6:32 left in the game sealed the
win for the Red Raiders.
“We go out every week and we grind, and we
end up with a loss, and it’s just real frustrating,”
Smith said. “We just got to go out there and keep
grinding and stick together and just go get a win
next week.”
The Bears have their eyes set to end the
season on a positive note as they travel to
Morgantown, W. Va., to take on the West
Virginia Mountaineers to close out the season at
2:30 p.m. Saturday.

Issues emerge in the MLB
RONALD BLUM
Associated Press
NEW YORK – Negotiators for
baseball players and owners are
meeting this week in Irving, in an
attempt to reach agreement on a
collective bargaining agreement to
replace the five-year contract that
expires Thursday. After eight work
stoppages from 1972-95, baseball has
had 21 years of labor peace.
Some of the issues in negotiations:
Compensation for the loss of free
agents has been an issue since the
free-agent era began in 1976. The
statistical ranking system established
in the 1981 strike settlement was
scrapped in the current agreement
that began with the 2012-13 offseason
and replaced by qualifying offers: A
team would be entitled to draft-pick
compensation if a player left as a free
agent after failing to accept a one-year
contract for the average salary among
the 125 highest-paid players ($17.2
million this year) and the signing
club would lose a top pick. Five of 64
free agents who received qualifying
offers accepted during the current
agreement, and some less-thanpremier free agents who received
offers said their market was limited
by teams not wanting to give up draft
selections.
Commissioner Rob Manfred
has said restraints on contracts for
international amateur players have
not been as effective as management
had hoped, and he is a proponent
of an international draft that would
cover residents outside the United
States, Canada and Puerto Rico. The
union has been resistant.
Teams spent $234 million in the
2011 draft on amateurs residing
in the United States, Canada and
Puerto Rico. The total dropped
to $209 million in the first year of
restraints, went up to $220 million
the following year, then rose to $224
million in 2014, $249 million in 2015
and $268 million this year. The sides
are negotiating the slot figures used

Orlin Wagner | Associated Press

PITCHING AWAY Kansas City Royals pitcher Edinson Volquez delivers a pitch on Oct. 1 to a Cleveland Indians batter
during the first inning at Kauffman Stadium in Kansas City, Mo.

to determine signing bonus pools
and the penalties for exceeding pools.
Some have expressed concern that
the slot values early in the first round
encourage a team not headed to the
postseason to tank in the final weeks
to get higher draft picks and a larger
signing bonus pool.
One of the last items in the
negotiations will be the luxury tax.
The threshold for the tax has been
$189 million for the past three years,

and for the past four years, the rate
has been 17.5 percent for the first
time over the threshold, increasing
to 30 percent for the second time in
a row, 40 percent for the third and 50
percent for the fourth or subsequent.
An increase to $200 million or more
is likely, which should lead to greater
spending by high-revenue teams
currently at or above the threshold.
The union and some teams would like
the rate to reset for all teams in 2017.

The sides have discussed an
increase from 25 active to 26 from
opening day through Aug. 31. In
an effort to keep late-season rules
closer to the ones used for most of
the season, the active limit would
decrease from 40 to 28 or 29 from
Sept. 1 through the end of regular
season.
Management proposed changes
that would make rules stricter in both
the joint drug agreement of 2014 and

the domestic violence agreement of
2015.
Concerned about players getting
run down, the sides discussed a
possible extension of the season from
183 days to 187 days. That appears
unlikely, but there probably will be
more restrictions on the scheduling
of night games on getaway days.
Management would like to have
pitch clocks, which have been used at
Triple-A and Double-A for the past
two seasons, and restrictions on trips
to the mound. Players generally have
resisted any changes to the natural
flow of the game.
Expect a rise in the minimum
salary, which was $507,500 in the
major leagues last season and $82,700
for a minor league player on a 40-man
big league roster for at least a second
season and $41,400 for a first.
The sides have discussed changes
to the revenue-sharing rules, which
included a market disqualification
test that prevented both teams from
New York, Los Angeles and Chicago
from receiving any revenue-sharing
money in 2016, along with Atlanta,
Boston, Houston, Philadelphia,
San Francisco, Texas, Toronto and
Washington.
Under the current agreement, the
top 22 percent of players by service
time of those with two or more years
of major league service and less than
three are eligible for arbitration, along
with players with at least three years
but less than six. Change in eligibility
has not gotten much attention.
Management has discussed a
ban on the use of smokeless tobacco
during games. The union has resisted,
maintaining that using smokeless
tobacco is legal and a matter of
individual choice, but in the 201216 agreement the union did agree
that players may not carry tobacco
packages and tins in their back
pockets when fans are permitted in
the ballpark, and players may not
use tobacco during pre-game or
post-game interviews, and at team
functions.

Westbrook dominates from the field
Player notches third straight
triple-double on Monday
BRIAN MAHONEY
Associated Press
NEW YORK – Russell Westbrook got his
third straight triple-double and nearly did it by
halftime, finishing with 27 points, 18 rebounds
and 14 assists for his NBA-leading eighth of the
season as the Oklahoma City Thunder beat the
New York Knicks 112-103 on Monday night.
Westbrook had 14 points, 10 rebounds and
nine assists at the break and is now averaging a
triple-double for the season, raising his averages
to 30.9 points, 11.3 assists and 10.3 rebounds
through more than a month of the season.
Enes Kanter added a season-high 27 points
and grabbed 10 rebounds, while Steven Adams
had 14 points and 10 boards in the Thunder’s
third straight victory.
Derrick Rose scored a season-best 30
points, but the Knicks had their six-game home
winning streak snapped. Kristaps Porzingis
added 21 points and Carmelo Anthony had 18,
but shot just four for 19.
Westbrook fell just shy of his third straight
15-assist game, but had his highest rebound total
of the season - and one off his career best - to
keep the Thunder rolling as they’ve rebounded
nicely from a recent three-game skid.
The Knicks led by 11 in the first quarter and
things were coming easily, with Joakim Noah
finding Porzingis for two lobs in the second
period. But the Thunder began to grab control
with Westbrook’s hustle and Kanter’s muscle,
getting numerous baskets inside to turn around
the game.
It happened so quickly that Westbrook nearly
had the stat sheet stuffed before the break.
Joffrey Lauvergne missed a 3-pointer that
would’ve given Westbrook a 10th assist with
32 seconds left in the half, but the point guard
who was MVP of the All-Star Game on this
floor two years ago had a shot at the halftime
triple-double after grabbing his 10th rebound
on the defensive end with a little more than 20

seconds left. He brought the ball up and tried to
create, but turned it over on a pass with about 5
seconds to go.
The Thunder are 11-5 against the Knicks
since moving to Oklahoma City in 2008. ...
Coach Billy Donovan grew up in New York and
played one season for the Knicks in 1987-88. He
said he wasn’t sure how many family members
and friends would be attending the game.
Knicks head coach Jeff Hornacek said
reserve F Lance Thomas, who hasn’t played
since Nov. 12 because of a left ankle injury, has
been working on the exercise bike and shooting
and could be back at practice soon, though there
is no timetable for his return to games.
The Thunder are in the midst of a five-game
stretch in which they won’t play consecutive
games in the same time zone. They came to New
York for essentially a one-game road trip in
between home games Saturday and Wednesday.
Joakim Noah hasn’t made a huge impact yet
in his first season with the Knicks, but his college
coach thinks he will. Donovan, who coached
Florida to back-to-back national championships
when Noah played there, said the center has
“incredible heart” and praised him as a team
leader who cares only about winning.
“Nothing else matters to him and I’ve always
admired that about him,” Donovan said, “and
he’s going to go out and he’s going to continue to
improve and get better as a player. He’s going to
put his work in, but he’s one of those guys in my
opinion that’s just truly all about sacrifice, team
and winning. So I think he’ll bring that to the
Knicks throughout the entire season.”
Up next, the Thunder host Washington on
Wednesday, their first game against former
Oklahoma City coach Scott Brooks.
The Knicks visit Minnesota on Wednesday
to start another home-and-home set, with the
return game at Madison Square Garden on
Friday. New York just played a home-and-home
against Charlotte last week.

Kathy Willens | Associated Press

LEAGUE OF HIS OWN Oklahoma City Thunder guard Russell Westbrook shoots between New
York Knicks guard Courtney Lee and Knicks forward Kristaps Porzingis on Monday in New York.